extempore
adverb
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L190151 on Wikidata ↗adjective
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Pronunciation: /ɛkˈstɛmpəɹi/ / /ɪkˈstɛmpəɹi/
adj
Etymology: From Latin ex (“immediately after”) + tempore, ablative singular of tempus (“time", "opportunity", "occasion”).
- Carried out with no preparation.
- 1833 January, “Pandemonic Revels”, in The Royal Lady’s Magazine, and Archives of the Court of St. James’s, number XXV, London, page 15
- 1833 January, “Pandemonic Revels”, in The Royal Lady’s Magazine, and Archives of the Court of St. James’s, number XXV, London, page 15: Sheets, tablecloths, white gowns, and pocket-handkerchiefs were instantly in demand, and every one, as has been seen, entered, con amore, into the extempore entertainment of Pandemonic Revels.
adv
Etymology: From Latin ex (“immediately after”) + tempore, ablative singular of tempus (“time", "opportunity", "occasion”).
- Without preparation; extemporaneously.
noun
Etymology: From Latin ex (“immediately after”) + tempore, ablative singular of tempus (“time", "opportunity", "occasion”).
- Something improvised.